MUSIC

STAND WELL BACK (PVC1042)
Available to buy from all good record stores, online
stores and leading download sites.

MUSIC PLAYER

Play Pause
Stop
Next»
«Prev

HIDE PLAYLIST

"powerful fusion jazz...one would urgently like to hear the band live" FINANCIAL TIMES (GERMANY) 'Jazz CD of the Week' “big musical canvases, full of colliding characters who sound like relatives of Stravinsky, Zappa, the Beatles, Miles Davis or Kurt Weill” THE GUARDIAN (live review of launch gig at Kings Place London) “attention grabbing combination of jazz language and rock edge…Stand Well Back is one of 2011’s biggest (and most pleasant) surprises” “catchy hooks, knotty rhythms and moodscapes” "firework of inspiration" ECLIPSED MAGAZINE 9* “rarely does a piece of music demolish the well-known conceptions of sound and structure, but every so often this does happen. Mostly we then speak of avant-garde. Colin Towns presents with his new band Blue Touch Paper a creation, which sounds totally new but still takes us to many known places as well” JAZZ THING MAGAZINE “…the right personnel and tunes with strong melodic hooks and arrangements that constantly surprise and engage…hear Blue Touch Paper live and whole new vistas and dimensions emerge” JAZZWISE MAGAZINE (live review of launch gig at Kings Place London) “…an expertly conceived and articulated series of compositions that hung together superbly as an evening of music full of engagement and appealing sonic surprises” THE HERALD (live review of gig at Edinburgh’s Queens Hall) "a magic sweet shop...rarely does a piece of music demolish the well known conceptions of sound and structure" JAZZ THING MAGAZINE “The music of Colin Towns’ new band doesn’t fit in any cliché but can only be understood as a matrix. It criss crosses all styles and origins and takes along the audience who want to listen to pictures, film, colours, smells and emotions. It breaks pattern and habits and leaves room for one’s own inspiration…only the one who is free of fear can play like this band does….it’s about a very open, courageous conversation between musicians, who part from virtuosity and confirmed habits, to embark on a collective journey taking their audience along with them” STERN.DE “the band traverses jazz-rock roughly from when Weather Report dropped off the scene. ...charts that hold the interest and move the music and even the genre forward" JAZZWISE MAGAZINE “banshee synths, cop-chase piano vamps..blazing guitar rock and flirtatious Latin-dancing episodes” THE GUARDIAN ‘extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging nature of the music they play vindicates his patience and care…as the album’s title suggest, all you have to do to experience the full power of this album is light the blue touch paper and stand well back” LONDONJAZZ “Towns is a master of the compositional art…so there is a real feeling of something taking shape here, with solos integrated into the overall arc of the composition. The cinematic quality of these slower tunes produces a dimension that is not normally the province of small groups, and it is here the strength of this new ensemble lies” JAZZWISE MAGAZINE “Towns unveils an athletic six-piece band with a foot in both the jazz and rock camps” THE TIMES “…a rich brew of Miles Davis-like funk, minimalistic energy and gleeful piano vamps” THE TELEGRAPH “Towns can stoke up a rock group’s heat, an orchestra’s polyphonic power, or the hipness of a Miles Davis group…a maverick lineup” THE GUARDIAN “Chris Montague’s guitar and Mark Lockheart’s sax flower against a swollen tide of percussion and Towns’ deft, talkative piano” THE INDEPENDENT “if you enjoyed Weather Report , this album is a re-run of that jaw-drop of hearing something astonishing and thrilling for the first time…will be a riveting live experience” THE YORK PRESS “Towns freely mixes genre influences – jazz, rock, classical, film music – in his own eclectic and highly satisfying fashion” THE SCOTSMAN “there’s energy and vitality…an ability to constantly confound expectations” MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS "what a debut album...huge recommendation" DRUMS AND PERCUSSION MAGAZINE

MUSIC

MUSIC PLAYER Play PauseStopNext»«Prev HIDE PLAYLIST

MUSIC PLAYER

Play Pause
Stop
Next»
«Prev

HIDE PLAYLIST